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IB Theory of Knowledge
Oxford University Press 2013; US$ 37.78This resource will help stimulate your students to think critically and creatively about knowledge through content and activities that cross disciplines and cultures. With additional support for the TOK essay and presentation. more...
A Rulebook for Arguments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 8.50A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer?translated into eight languages?remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess... more...
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 5.25The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates presents G. M. A. Grube?s distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. more...
Nicomachean Ethics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2000; US$ 13.95Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised glossary. more...
The Believing Brain
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 14.57Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using sensory data that flow in through the senses, the brain naturally... more...
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 47.00This important Enlightenment text ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts, and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. This volume presents a new edition of the text together with an introduction, explanatory notes and a guide to further reading. more...
Six Myths about the Good Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 12.50Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken... more...
Beyond Good & Evil
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Philosophy Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy ? but in less flamboyant and more systematic form. The nine parts of the book are... more...
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Starting with Leibniz
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 75.00Gottfried Leibniz has been one of the most important and influential philosophers of the seventeenth century and, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of three great early modern Rationalist thinkers. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Leibniz provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker.... more...









